NIGEL Farage demolished the EU's State of the Union address today using just a handful of sentences to expose the bloc as an in increasingly undemocratic, and Soviet-esque, sham.

After listening to more than an hour of Jean-Claude Juncker's self-agrandising State of the Union speech Farage’s laser-guided attack took just seconds to dismantle almost every plan, proposal and pontification made by the former Luxembourg politician turned European Commission President.

He called Jean-Claude Juncker’s plans to hugely expand the powers of the EU without a vote “extremely worrying” and shouted: “Thank God we’re leaving! You’ve learned nothing from Brexit!”

The former Ukip boss, and champion of Brexit, added that Juncker and his colleagues were appointing powerful unelected people in positions of huge power including “a finance minister who intervenes when he feels it necessary” and plans for “a European army with a more aggressive foreign policy.”

“And all this to be done without the consent of the people.”

Mr Farage was clearly appalled by Junker’s earlier claim that the EU could appoint pan-European ministers with unprecedented powers WITHOUT any form of electoral process.

Juncker said: “A European Monetary Fund needs to be anchored in the European Union. We need a European minister of economy and finance, a minister to promote structural reform in our member states.

“These euro-wide policies in the EU don’t need treaty change as long as it is decided in the European Council.”

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Mr Farage said: “Mr Juncker, that was the most open, honest and most worrying speech I ever heard. What you’re saying is: Brexit has happened, full steam ahead!”

Attacking European proposals to introduce a bizarrely complex pan-European voting system Mr Farage said: “Genuine democratic parties of oppostions won’t be able to compete on a level playing field.”

And pointing to the seemingly wilful need for the EU to shoot itself in the foot he added: “You have learned nothing from Brexit. If you had given David Cameron concessions on immigration Brexit would never have happened.”

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He attacked the EU's increasingly clear Federalist agenda and even likened the bloc to the Communist Soviet Union adding: " The way you’re treating Hungary and Poland must remind them of living under the soviet communists."

The furious outburst comes after the former Ukip leader told Express.co.uk the European Commission President’s address “will be more about what he doesn’t say” in the lead up to his speech.

He said: “My feeling right now is that this speech will be more about what he doesn’t say than what he does say and I shall say to him that actually by going for more Europe in response to Brexit you actually fuel the populism, as you call it, that led to Brexit.